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Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141

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Re: Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141

I've had the same fountain pen for almost five years now. I hold it in a really rather weird way and due to the amount of use it's seen and the position in which I hold it, the nib has actually worn down to something resembling a calligraphy pen.

The punchline is that it was in a pack of 3 for £1.99 pens and it's outlasted numerous friends' fancy pens. I did unscrew the nib and put it in the case of another of the pens from that pack almost three years ago though because my old one was pretty much broken and the lid no longer even tried to stay on. It also makes a lot of noise which annoys other people.

BANG → !OH LOOK AT HER/.../YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN MEAN/RICHARDS

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Originally Posted by cycoris

>.>

New thread... is that lemon cleaner I smell? *sniff sniff*

Oh, wait, that's just the lemons that life handed me. I'm still sick. Blargh.

When life hands you lemons you should think, think until you can figure out how you got an abstract construct like life to give real physical lemons. then repeat the experience and start a fruit stand specializing in lemons, sell them for cheap and defeat the big fruit corporations, using your vast fortune to conquer the world!!! MWAHAAHAHA!!! Ahem, Sorry ignore that.

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Originally Posted by AvatarZero

I like the "hobo" in there.
"Hey, you just got 10000gp! You going to buy a fully staffed mansion or something?"
"Nah, I'll upgrade my +2 sword to a +3 sword and sleep in my cloak."

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Last April... We call it "Valborg" over here. Or, "The-day-in-which-people-drink-their-heads-of-themselves-and-then-drink-some-more" if you like. They started yesterday. *sigh*

Anyway, for today, students from the university in town made a lot of funny styrofoam boats whom they sailed upon down the stream going through the town centre and crash down the rapids (litterary). Pretty funny to see them fall off their disintegrating boats, actually.

Now in the evening, people have built and lit enormous bonfires in different places across town. Perhaps I should take my bike and go down to the nearest one after I've eaten my ice-cream.

Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...

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Wow, a new thread. How long does each one normally last? It seems we got to 50 pages pretty quickly.

I've had one of those really exhausting weeks; I'm very glad to be doing absolutely nothing at all this evening, and I'm normally the type who gets bored after a while, if that's a reasonable measure of fatigue.

Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl

I actually need to reread Wuthering Heights for my exams. It's been nearly five years since I last read it all the way through.
If you like the ambiguity of Bronte's I aslo highly recommend VIllette, it's a very claustrophobic book which balances nicely between 'normality', insanity and the supernatural wonderfully.

In that case I order you to read The Duchess of Malfi. Bosolo is an amazing malcontent and my favourite one, and don't forget, I've not read Othello yet, so I have no real opinion on Iago.
Bosolo's so misogynistic it's funny, he has some of the best lines, including one that can be paraphrase thusly: "Thy face, when removed of its makeup resembles nothing more than the feotus of an aborted hedgehog."
ANd yes, you can find the entire Malfi text online.

Two recommendations from someone I know has similar tastes to myself... perfect!

Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl

Have you read Riddle 23 of The Exeter Book?

“I am a wonderful help to women
The hope of something good to come
I harm only my slayer
I grow very tall, erect in a bed
I am shaggy down below
The lovely girl grabs my body, rubs my red skin
Holds me hard, claims my head.
That girl will feel our meeting!
I bring tears to her eyes!
What am I?”

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An onion.
Nothing like a spot of double entendre is there?

That was great.
I love what a good sense of humour these people obviously had as well - something else you wouldn't normally think of immediately with Anglo-Saxons. It's a shame since the riddles are very witty to say the least.

Fantasy:
Rusty & Co.
Looking For Group
The Order of the Stick
The Gods of Arr-Kelaan
Goblins

Gaming:
Irregular Webcomic
Penny Arcade
VG Cats - Even though it never seems to update anymore
Brawl in the Family

Other:
Homestar Runner - Even though it never seems to update anymore
Least I Could Do
Explosm
xkcd
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
The Book of Biff
Hello With Cheese

Avatar by me. It's Incendius Darkscale, a Good Dragonborn Dragon Sorcerer, Demonskin Adept, Prince of Hell, worshiper of the Platinum Dragon (Bahamut), specializing in Fire and Lightning, wielding a staff in each hand.

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No offense to K-B's taste here, but I would avoid Least I Could Do personally. The art's good, and the comic is fine if you enjoy Gary Stu, author insert, jackass protagonists.

Hey, Rayne has some tender moments.
Like when he drank a bunch of Red Bull and nearly died, causing him to have a hallucination.
Or when he revealed that his pranks on John were largely because they didn't spend any time together.
Or when he found out Kate was living with Noel.
He's just a very... odd... character.

Some men just want to watch the world shift uncomfortably in its seat.

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Originally Posted by Kylarra

Originally Posted by absolmorph

I happen to like screwing around with Handle Animal.

Red Mage, is that you?

Originally Posted by Rawhide

Now you're cranking it up to eleven.

Originally Posted by Dimonite

A week ago, I didn't know who you were. Now I know: you're the BEST PERSON EVER.

Originally Posted by noparlpf

You seem to be having trouble with the idea that a rulebook can contradict itself, because it shouldn't, but...WotC.

Additionally, a video series that could eat up some time if you don't mind the more creepy/horror (although, of course, YourMileageMayVary*), is MarbleHornets (Introduction for Plot | First Entry to Skip That Crap) which is perhaps THE definitive Slender Man series. And if you enjoy it, there's plenty of parodies, homages, and stuff to watch and eat up more time. Looking at a couple of hours for the entire thing, most likely.

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I know I'm not often in the random banter but...

How the hell do you eat a Klondike Bar without it becoming a mess? Every time it becomes more difficult to eat it from one end without it collapsing, and eating around the edges just makes it explode later on.

And then you get to the end and half of the coating has splintered to pieces.

Ask me about our low price vacation plans in the Elemental Plane of Puppies and Pie

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